Panayiotis Zavos Quotes

A lot of people have been asking me questions about IVF and surrogacy, and I'm glad that I can be a mouthpiece to that.

We are at a major epoch in human history, which is that we don't need sex to recreate the race. You can have babies without sex. This is the first time in human history that has been true, and it means, for example, we could do some extraordinary things.

To get pregnant, I have resorted to artificial insemination. I want to openly talk about it because this is an opportunity to show my gratitude to all those anonymous donors who help many women to meet, like me, the dream of their life.

I think because we could do it biologically and have our own child we decided to try this.

My motivation is my desire to help people. If people want to have children and cannot in the normal way, and I can do something about it, then I will do so.

It's actually very beautiful when you can't conceive on your own, you can actually go to the doctors and with science you can create a child.

I would rather do surrogacy before adopting. If I can't do it, I'd rather find someone who would do it for me.

I used to think about how I was conceived quite a lot when I was about 10 or 11, but I don't think about it at all now that so many other babies have been born in the same way.

My wife and I had been trying a while to have a baby. We tried a bunch of things - so we had a surrogate.

People who are infertile will be able to have their own genetic children. So may same sex couples, since it may well be possible to make eggs from a man's skin cells or sperm from a woman's.

Both the egg donor and the infertile mother must abide by the religious codes regarding parenting.

Those that don't know that I've gone through so many IVF treatments, and I've gone through six cycles to get this child, that's on its way via surrogate, biological child - and it's been great.

I've always been intrigued with the variety of answers this generation will give their children who ask, "Where did I come from, Mommy?" They will range from "Number 176 vial in Buffalo, New York," to "You were defrosted."

It's to surprise people about something that is extremely well known. I mean human reproduction, the human body, nature and so on. To surprise them with a new technique.

Thinking about women who can't have their own baby, even the first baby, I'm really lucky.

Just like my straight friends, I am repeatedly asked when I plan to have kids, and have been told many times, by various branches of my bloodline, that 'even lesbians can have babies these days.'

I think in vitro is a miracle and it has given me my precious little baby boy.

My dream is to have a baby, not to adopt one, because I am not up to it and I don't feel strong enough. I want my own child, a biological child, the fruit of my sperm, conceived through artificial insemination because it wouldn't make sense for me to make love to a woman I don't love.

Anti-human cloning legislation is, for infertile Americans, the equivalent of anti-reproduction legislation.

We should control fertility clinics so that they do not create spare human beings. They are spare people.

Not only am I having a girl, but I picked the girl from her little embryo.

For people who have fertility issues - and certainly gay men have fertility issues - there's several options for having a child and surrogacy was one of them.

For a couple that wants to have a child, there's the option of IVF, but then have a look at adoption as well.

It's such a strong drive for women, knowing you were meant to be a mom. We would have gone into debt, done whatever, exhausted all the options, to get there. But a lot of women have to give up on that dream because they can't afford it.

How many of those forty-something celebrities, staring out from the covers of magazines with their beautiful babies, have conceived naturally, or without assistance? Not as many as you might think I would wager - yet for so many women they act as fertility beacons, a symbol of hope in a landscape of diminishing fertility.